Jose Sanchez
is an Architect, Game Designer, and Theorist based in Detroit, Michigan. He is the director of the Plethora Project (www.plethora-project.com),
a research studio investing in the future of the propagation of architectural design knowledge.
He
is the creator of the video games Block’hood and Common’hood, digital social platforms that aid the authoring of architectural
and ecological thinking to non-expert audiences. He is the author of the book “Architecture for the Commons: Participatory
Systems in the Age of Platforms” published by Routledge in 2020 and the co-creator of Bloom, a crowdsourced interactive installation
which was the winner of the Wonder Series hosted by the City of London for the 2012 Olympics. He has taught in renowned institutions
in the United States and in Europe, including the Architectural Association in London, The Bartlett School of Architecture
at University College London, at the University of Southern California. He is currently at the University of Michigan, where
he is an Associate Professor at the Taubman College School of Architecture. His research “Architecture for the Commons” designs
and interrogates social media platforms as tools with the potential to author architectural content in the public domain.
This academic year SLIVER is presenting a „Mixtape“ compiled by members of our faculty who contributed with their professional
interests and pedagogical objectives. The summer term is as well a collection of architects, artists, and theoreticians whose
work is circulating through the IoA in form of theoretical underpinnings, built references, and research ambitions.
Upcoming IoA Sliver Lecture Series summer term 2021:
Philip
F. Yuan (Shanghai/China) April 15, 12pm - noon
Paola Antonelli (New York/USA) April 22,
7pm
Joanne McNeil (USA) April 29, 7pm
Pezo von Ellrichshausen
(Chile) May 7, 7pm
Thomas Krarup/Cobe architects (Copenhagen/Denmark) May 27, 7pm